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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Cast

Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd, Carl Reiner View All


Crew

Carl Reiner (Screenplay), Carl Reiner (Director), Steve Martin (Screenplay), George Gipe (Screenplay) View All

Release: May 21st, 1982
Runtime: 1 hour, 25 minutes
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye, Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
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5 What do you think of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)?
I just saw it and I like Steve Martin a lot, but this one feels like a mess of different plot ideas, that doesn't really come quite together. The scenes from older movies spliced in, just add to the ...

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Gideon58
The clever linchpin upon which this film hangs is that, through the magic of tricky editing and complicated photography, Steve Martin interacts with film clips from movies of the period with the actual stars of these films spliced into the scenes with Martin.


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